Alice S. Rossi Quotes
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I'm evangelical.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.
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My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.
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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
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... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
